Eaton, Thomas, Dd

Eaton, Thomas, D.D.

a Scotch clergyman, graduated from Glasgow University; was licensed to preach in June, 1807; presented by lord Douglas to the living of Kirriemuir in 1809, and ordained March 22, 1810. He died April 5, 1856, aged seventy-nine years. In him learning, knowledge, modesty, and moral worth were combined with meekness and piety. He published six different works, chiefly of a local theological character. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 3:777.